USB-C, HDMI, even a few USB-A ports are handy. This is why, as much as I love my new M2-powered iPad Pro, I find that single USB-C port really restrictive. Until now. Also: Using the wrong USB-C cable can damage your tech. How to avoid that Enter into the equation the Satechi USB-C Multimedia Adapter M1 (don’t let that M1 fool you, this works just as well on M2 hardware)....

Designed to lure in hummingbirds, the feeder comes with a red lily flower that offers easy disassembly for regular cleaning without hassle. Using AI technology, the hummingbird feeder can capture photos and videos of a whopping 350 different hummingbird species. A motion sensor will trigger the built-in camera to snap images of any birds that visit the feeder, including wing speeds of up to 60mph. Also: What tech is in the CES 2023 bag of ZDNET’s Editor in Chief?...

Qakbot, is an especially versatile piece of malware, and has been around for over a decade and survived despite multi-year efforts by Microsoft and other security firms to stamp it out. Qakbot in 2017 adopted WannaCry’s lateral movement techniques, such as infecting all network shares and drives, brute forcing Active Directory accounts and using the SMB file-sharing protocol to create copies of itself. Kaspersky’s recent analysis of Qakbot concluded that it won’t disappear anytime soon....

Also: Why you need a smartphone with a thermal and IR camera One maker that I’ve featured quite a lot here is Doogee. I’ve featured this brand a lot because it’s a company that’s proven itself capable of delivering a quality product time and time again. And its handsets always feature a twist or two that makes them particularly interesting to me. Its latest creation – the Doogee S100 – is no different....

Now, NSL is making its high-resolution imagery of Earth available for free to universities, nonprofit organizations, and researchers, the company announced Wednesday. NSL offers images with 10-centimeter-per-pixel resolution. The images are so clear they can pick up road conditions, roofing details, vegetation, or even a soccer ball on the ground. There are a number of commercial use cases for NSL’s technology. Insurance companies, for instance, could use it for property assessments, while energy companies could use it to monitor their solar panels or oil fields....

The publication IEEE Spectrum taps members from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and other sources to come up with its annual programming language rankings. Once again, IEEE Spectrum puts Python as the most popular programming language. It’s seen massive growth because it’s relatively easy to learn and has a healthy ecosystem of libraries to refine its use in data science and machine learning, such as Tensor Flow, NumPy and SciPy....

Artificial intelligence-based tech has been widely featured these past several years, finding its way into 3D animation, autonomous cars, and more. However, some companies also introduced AI in some of our favorite pastimes. Such is the case with this CES-featured chessboard. Square Off Pro is what InfinVention Technologies calls the World’s First Rollable Tournament e-Chessboard, and it’s available now for $225. With the Square Off Pro, you’ll always have a worthy opponent to challenge, whether it’s face-to-face with a friend, a competitor across the world, or the chessboard’s Adaptive AI, which adjusts to your skill level quickly....

The camera unit itself is a little chunky, and might not be ideal if you’re planning to carry it around. It measures 130mm wide by 53mm deep by 50mm tall, including the integrated hinged stand that can be used to prop the camera on a monitor, where I found it sat comfortably. Also: The best webcams for video calls Trust also provides a tripod, which is sturdy but could do with longer legs....

“Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person’s privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm,” Twitter shared on a blog post. “The misuse of private media can affect everyone, but can have a disproportionate effect on women, activists, dissidents, and members of minority communities. When we receive a report that a Tweet contains unauthorized private media, we will now take action in line with our range of enforcement options....

Business leaders absorb the numbers on a minute-to-minute basis before choosing to go down a particular strategic path. Some might believe – and with considerable reason – that United Airlines has operated this way for a long time. It, along with most other airlines, seems to look at the numbers and then carefully calculate how many more numbers it can extract from captive customers. The timeworn practice of nickeling and diming never goes out of style....

“The specific flaw exists within the parsing of EA metadata when opening files in smbd. Access as a user that has write access to a file’s extended attributes is required to exploit this vulnerability,” Samba said in its security notice. “Note that this could be a guest or unauthenticated user if such users are allowed write access to file extended attributes.” Discovered by Orange Tsai from Devcore and labelled as CVE-2021-44142, Samba said the vfs_fruit module that improves compatibility for OS X clients is vulnerable in its default configuration....

To understand how a secured credit card works, consider that card providers require some sort of guarantee that you’ll repay your outstanding balances. Most credit cards use a credit score as the gauge of how likely you are to repay your bills. When your credit score isn’t up to par, something else has to take its place to lower a card provider’s risk. Secured credit cards require a refundable cash deposit as a guarantee....

On Thursday, the red and white bank said it would begin implementing that plan by reducing its corporate functions by around 20% as it aims to create a “small, more focussed head office”. The change will involve moving the company’s support services, including technology, finance, and HR, into a newly created division called customer services and technology, which will be headed up current COO Scott Collary, whose new title will be customer services and technology group executive....

A double major in engineering, mathematics, or comparable discipline supplements what you learn in a computer science program by overlapping, reinforcing, and building on what you learn. Double majoring in business introduces new knowledge and skills in topics like marketing, management, and finance. Humanities double majors hone analytical and critical thinking alongside writing skills. No matter what you choose, your career outlook may benefit from expanding your interdisciplinary skills....

The site serves as a repository of information about computer programming. It’s named after the software error that occurs when a program runs out of memory. Stack Overflow facilitates collaboration, problem-solving, and knowledge-sharing among individuals, groups, and organizations. Stack Overflow pros Ask questions and get practical, detailed answersTags and filters make questions and answers easy to findCommunities of like-minded computer programmers sharing informationNo advertisements or spamVoting system to promote accurate answersSmart participants with fast responses Stack Overflow cons Resistance to newbies asking questionsGuides about how to ask a question are difficult for beginnersDown-voting by fellow users without explanation or instructionNo way to refine and edit existing questions and answersModerators don’t always facilitate discussions efficiently...

The telescope views the world at infrared wavelengths, allowing for a deeper look into space to see the earliest stars and galaxies in the universe that formed after the Big Bang. The infrared light also makes visible stars and planetary systems forming inside clouds of dust visible which would otherwise be opaque. The telescope will help scientists search for the first galaxies formed after the universe was created and study these galaxies’ evolutions....

These technologies and their developing successors, collectively known as extended reality (XR), are coalescing – along with other building blocks such as blockchain, cryptocurrencies and NFTs, artificial intelligence, 3D design, holography, IoT, 5G and 6G, cloud and edge computing – into the concept of the ‘metaverse’, which can be thought of as the entirety of the resulting immersive internet experience, once all the pieces are connected. In many ways, the metaverse is the next, 3D version of the web and is based on many of the same technologies as Web3, with a similar decentralised, user-driven focus....

Risk was determined by considering the range and severity of vulnerabilities in the types of devices, as well as the number of internet-facing ports – along with how the device could be abused if compromised, and the impact that abuse could have across the wider network. Researchers found that some of the IoT products that are most at risk are some of the most commonly deployed across smart homes and workplaces....

As US Senator Gary Peters (D-MI) said last week, “Open-source software is the bedrock of the digital world.” His partner across the aisle, Rob Portman (R-OH), agreed, saying, “The computers, phones, and websites we all use every day contain open-source software that is vulnerable to cyberattack.” Therefore, “The bipartisan Securing Open Source Software Act [PDF] will ensure that the US government anticipates and mitigates security vulnerabilities in open-source software to protect Americans’ most sensitive data....

Most companies have responded positively to workers’ desire to spend less time in the office and accepted that their employees’ value has little to do with where they choose to do their work. In fact, some of the highest-paying tech jobs are now offered as remote roles, with companies understanding that, in order to recruit the developers they need, flexibility must be a prerequisite. Airbnb, for instance, recently announced its new ‘work from anywhere’ (or WFA) policy....